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THE KANSAS CITY STAR BUNDLE
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Last month, the Kansas City Star selected its top ten short fiction books of 2008. Among the titles were three by Dzanc Books and its imprints, Black Lawrence Press and OV Books. Things That Pass for Love, Unending Rooms and Based on a True Story were called "sharp-edged," "Borges-like" and "the best short fiction this reviewer has seen in years." And to celebrate, we're offering these three titles at the low price of just $40.
Seperately, these books would cost around $65. For the time being, get them in this bundle and save! Just in time for the holidays, too.
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FROM THE KANSAS CITY STAR:
SHORT FICTION | selected by Linda Rodriguez
Things That Pass for Love, by Allison Amend. Sharp-edged tales of urban and suburban lovers.
Unending Rooms, by Daniel Chacón. Down and dirty Chicano stories combine with Borges-like meta-fiction.
*Based on a True Story, by Hesh Kestin. These three superb novellas by a former foreign correspondent are some of the best short fiction this reviewer has seen in years.
And from Editor John Mark Eberhart's column about the Notable Books of the Year:
"My hat is off to Books of the Year panelist Linda Rodriguez.
She selected Hesh Kestin’s Based on a True Story as her top short-fiction collection of 2008. Linda’s assignment this year was to choose 10 short-story titles, then pick one favorite out of the group. And Based on a True Story is a collection of three novellas.
The novella is an underrepresented form in modern American literature, and that’s a shame. So the fact that Rodriguez found value in Kestin’s book heartened me."
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